The timeless recipe...Nestle Toll House Cookies. So simple, and yet, somehow I did a doozy.

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups (12-ounce package) NESTLÉ TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:
PREHEAT oven to 375° F.

COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.

BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

PAN COOKIE VARIATION: Grease 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan. Prepare dough as above. Spread into prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan on wire rack. Makes 4 dozen bars.

FOR HIGH ALTITUDE BAKING (5,200 feet): Increase flour to 2 1/2 cups. Add 2 teaspoons water with flour and reduce both granulated sugar and brown sugar to 2/3 cup each. Bake drop cookies for 8 to 10 minutes and pan cookie for 17 to 19 minutes.

[Recipe copied directly from VeryBestBaking.com]

Over the years, I've used this recipe so many times I thought I nearly had it memorized.

I had an inkling to make some cookies, so this afternoon I whipped out my bag of chocolate chips, half glanced at the back of the bag to peek at the recipe for a refresher, grabbed the ingredients I needed, and began tossing out half a batch.

When the recipe calls for the flour, salt, and baking soda to be mixed in a small separate bowl from the butter, sugars, and vanilla....I do believe it's for real.

Don't do like me and toss in the flour, salt, baking soda, sugars, and melted butter into your mixing bowl all at the same time. It.doesn't.look.right. Oh and I ommitted the vanilla too...who needs vanilla anyways? Trust me. The.cookies.do.

When you've mixed up all the ingredients...THEN add in the chocolate chips (and nuts if you so choose). Don't mix in the chocolate chips, dollup the dough out onto the ungreased cookie pan in nice spoonfuls, and then realize when your significant other says, "That looks funny." that you only put in half the flour that you were supposed to.

I tossed the dough back into the mixing bowl of my beautiful Kitchen Aid mixer, added the extra flour and mixed it up. The chocolate chips took great offense at this and began throwing themselves from their ill fated lives of flour suffocation all over the kitchen. Not that the dog minded.



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Taste tested by my husband. "They are pretty good!...different...but still good."

I still recommend following the recipe's directions as they are. My mindless modifications are not the way to make a good Nestle Toll House Cookie.